From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: fopen/fclose memory leak
28 Jul 1998 13:10:47 GMT
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In article <19980727194430 DOT 27431 DOT rocketmail DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT send1a DOT yahoomail DOT com>,
Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>Has the memory leak that was reported months ago been resolved in the
>current releases of the coolview cygwinb19.dll?
>
>Here is sample code that demonstrates the problem:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>int main()
>{
>  while(1)
>  {
>    FILE *f=fopen("/etc/passwd","r");
>    fclose(f);
>  }
>  return 0;
>}

I don't believe that it is fixed, no.  The next version should fix this.
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